In some cases you are fortunate that decent test data is available, but unfortunately this is not always the case. Therefore I'm going to show you how you can easily create your own test data. This test data should be good enough for a development phase.
This article shows you how to install the HortonWorks sandox on Oracle’s VM VirtualBox. Hortonworks is a pre-installed Hadoop environment with a lot of associated technologies included. There are a few other player like Cloudera and MapR. If you are interested in the differences between those players and Hortonworks then read experfy.com.
In this “how to” you will see a tMap functionality that makes it a lot easier to debug tMap errors, especially when you are using a lot of data, columns or converts.
Before I knew about this functionality I used to spent a lot of time on solving nullpointer exeptions and all kind of convert errors.
I this “how to” i’m going to show you how easy it is to get the longitude and latitude from google maps for you address data. You can use this data for your PowerBi dashboards for example. Before you can start you need to install the tGoogleMapLookup component.
